Roger Harrabin quotes a Met Office contact on seasonal forecasts: "I accept that from the point of view of people deciding where to take their holiday they were actually pretty useless"

In a frank conversation this week a Met Office contact told me: "I must admit to feeling a bit misled myself as to how experimental the seasonal forecasts were. When the team said the forecasts were pretty good they meant that they were scientifically good given the extreme difficulty of the challenge. I accept that from the point of view of people deciding where to take their holiday they were actually pretty useless. We have learned a lesson from that." [Via WL]